Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

A U-tube containing water is used as a manometer. When one end of the manometer is connected to a low-pressure chamber, both water levels in the ma...

A gas is trapped inside a cylinder by a movable piston. The length of the gas column is 20 cm and the pressure inside the cylinder is p. The piston...

The diagrams represent four thermometers. Which thermometer has the greatest sensitivity and which thermometer has the greatest range?

Which type of thermometer is used for measuring temperatures above 1000 °C and which type is used for measuring temperatures that change rapidly?

An electric shower takes in cold water at 17 °C. The shower gives 6000 J of energy every second to the cold water and heats it to 37 °C. The specif...

What is latent heat of vaporisation?

In an experiment using a ripple tank, plane wavefronts arrive at a plane surface. Which row correctly describes the waves after they are reflected ...

Which statement about red light and blue light is correct?

A ray of light in a transparent medium of refractive index 1.8 is incident on the surface as shown. The light enters air. What is the angle between...

A musical note is produced by two sources. The traces produced by each source on the screen of a cathode-ray oscilloscope (c.r.o.) are shown below....

What is a suitable metal for the core of an electromagnet?

A polythene rod becomes charged when rubbed with a dry woollen cloth. The charge caused is a result of

A positively charged insulated metal sphere is brought close to an uncharged insulated metal sphere. Which diagram shows the charge distribution on...

The flash on a camera operates when a capacitor discharges through a flash-tube. In 3.2 ms, a charge of 6.0 C passes through the flash-tube. What i...

Which physical quantity is produced by a calculation where a charge is multiplied by a potential difference (p.d.)?

Three 10 Ω resistors are connected together to form networks X, Y and Z. What is the order of resistance of the networks going from the smallest to...

Which circuit contains a fuse and a diode?

Four resistors of unequal resistances are connected to a power supply as shown. The currents in the four resistors are I₁, I₂, I₃ and I₄. Which equ...

Which diagram shows a lamp wired correctly to the mains supply in a house?

P and Q represent two, parallel, straight wires carrying currents into the plane of the paper. P and Q exert a force on each other. Which arrow sho...

The diagram shows a simple d.c. motor. What is the part labelled Q?

An experiment is set up to investigate how the current in a filament lamp changes with the potential difference across it. Which circuit is correct?

Electric power cables transmit electrical energy over large distances using high-voltage, alternating current. What are the advantages of using a h...

Which section of the circuit contains a potential divider?

Which particles are emitted by the hot filament of a cathode-ray oscilloscope (c.r.o.) and which type of field is used to accelerate them?

In the circuit shown, all lamps are identical. Lamp P lights with normal brightness. Switch Y is closed and lamps come on. Which row indicates the ...

Which type of electromagnetic radiation is produced during radioactive decay?

Which row states where nuclear fusion occurs and what nuclear fusion is?

Which is a scalar quantity?

The diagram shows a micrometer scale.

A lorry takes 15 minutes to travel along the path PQRS.

An apple of mass 0.15kg and weight 1.5N falls from a tree. At one point during its fall, the air resistance on the apple is 0.60 N upwards. What is...

At time t₁, a stone is dropped from a stationary balloon. The stone reaches terminal velocity at time t₂. Which row gives the acceleration of the s...

Four of the gravitational forces that act between bodies in the Solar System are described below. P the force on the Moon due to the Earth Q the fo...

A student produces some revision notes on gravity, mass and weight. Which statement is not correct?

Two cylinders P and Q are made of copper. The height of P is twice the height of Q. The diameter of P is half the diameter of Q. Which statement is...

The total weight of the load and the wheelbarrow shown is 600 N. What is the size of force F needed just to lift the loaded wheelbarrow?

The base of a rectangular storage tank is 2.0 m by 3.0 m. The tank is filled with paraffin to a depth of 3.0 m. The density of paraffin is 800 kg/m...

A person throws a stone so that it follows the path shown in the diagram. In which position does the stone have the most gravitational potential en...

A piston of area 10 cm² is pushed slowly into a very large cylinder containing gas at a pressure of 10 N/cm². The pressure of the gas remains const...

A gas is in a sealed container of constant volume. The gas is heated and the pressure of the gas on the walls of the container increases. How do th...

The diagrams represent four thermometers. Which thermometer has the greatest sensitivity and which thermometer has the greatest range?

Some of the liquid in a dish evaporates, as shown in the diagrams. Which molecules leave the liquid and which molecules in the liquid have greater ...

An insulated beaker contains 300 g of water, initially at 30°C. Water at 100°C is added until the temperature of the mixture reaches 50°C. The spec...

An echo sounder produces ultrasound of frequency 24 kHz. The ultrasound travels in water at a speed of 1.5 km/s. What is the wavelength in water of...

An object is viewed through a converging lens. The diagram shows the paths of two rays from the top of the object to an eye. How does the image com...

In an experiment using a ripple tank, plane wavefronts arrive at a plane surface. Which row correctly describes the waves after they are reflected ...

A loudspeaker produces a sound wave of frequency 50 Hz. The amplitude of the sound wave is increased. What is heard?

An ultrasound scanner produces an image of an unborn baby. How does the scanner form an image?

The sound from the siren of a ship is reflected by a cliff. An echo is heard by a sailor on the deck of the ship, 4.0s after the siren is sounded. ...